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Middletown transcript., 1887-12-15

NJ. Tirard has finally succeeded in
forming cabinet for France. It is
made of members from the various Sec
tions of the Republican party on the
lines laid down by President Carnot
and by which he hopes to reconcile and
make harmonious at il the opposing el-
ements. Those who know say he has
undertaken an almost hopeless task, as
the warning elements are about as like
ly to mix as are oil and water. A short
life is predicted for the new cabinet.
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Tempting offerings
Holiday Goodsl
AT THE STORES OF
S. M. REYNOLDS & CO.,
MIDDLETOWN, DEL.

The most tempting offerings in Handsome Holiday dooas
which have their appearance this season can De seen
today in Our Eight Sales Rooms Not only they IN ex-
ceedngy choice things but the prices SO far below pre-
vaing trade ideas that feel they will excite very gen
ernal surprise The Novelties suitable for present giving
also cover yery wide range Those that make their seec
ons earlier the usual advantages later buyers
We are adding daily already large stock of goods for
Holiday trade and have force of saespeope ready
and willing to show you explain you and aid you your
selections Make yourselves at home among us. Holiday
Greeting and Hearty Welcome to and ALL
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Cruelty toaLittIe sister.

The Governor of Delaware owns
eleven farms in that State. The name
of the owner of the other farm is not
given. the Louisville Courier
Journal.
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SEND for our clubbing list with the
leading periodicals and magazines. You
can save money and get good local
paper in the bargain,
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WHEN the new senators have been
qualified that body will stand 81 Dem
ocrats, 38 Republicans and Riddle
berger.
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Gnanallraher's

oldest designs from more than
forty of the leading makers.
Enough to judge by are on the
Maine Aisle, near Chestnut
street entrance. More near
the Pocketbook counter.
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Dres sing Cases, Work
Boxes, Jewel Boxes. Bright
with the color Of plush and the
sheen of metal. We never
before saw such a variety of
pack-away-space and spread
out-space as some of them
combine 81 to $50.
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THE Episcopal Convention failed to
elect a Bishop last week. The elec-
tion has been postponed until next
Inna
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Little handles for the toilet,
neatly boxed. Brush and comb
and fxings in sets, IS cents to
$40 for a plush boxful. Mani
cure sets, SO cents to $50.
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Taanalllaktr's
chandise.

CnanQlSo.
To keep up the full operation
of our rules of exchange and
refund of money during these
extra days we shall employ ad-
ditional assistants and open
new desks.
As all hours of the day seem
equally busy we cannot justly
ask customers to come at any
special times; but at all hours
we will do our utmost to faith
fully serve them.
We are next door to the
suburban towns by Broad
Street Station, three minutes
distant.
Store will be ready for busi-
ness rather earlier than usual
for the next few days. We
shall close not earlier than
$50 p. m. until Friday even
ing.
On Saturday and through
out next week we shall keep
open in the evenings until ten
o'clock to accommodate many
who are employed all day and
who must make purchases at
night.
Seven nights Of 81 hours
each are not many in whole
year for our clerks to work,
especially when they take
turns in relieving each other
alternate nights SO far as they
choose, and we are able to
arrange for reliefs.
The number of employees
on the payroll this day De-
cember l3, 1887 at this one
Store is 4735. Philadelphia
is the only city in the world
that has such a place as
this, so far as we know.
We began last January to
get ready for this Christmas
business time.
Clearing off a few tables
here and a dozen feet or
yards of Store counter there
and getting a lot Of Holiday
Goods consigned that are "all
that's left" Of an importers
stock isnot our idea of proper
service for our trusting and
customers.
It is a kind Of high art to
catch, by contact with the peo-
Pile, the needs Of the Christmas
times and carry the Christmas
thoughts to the keen-witted
souls who invent and contrive
md conjure and create for
our Holiday joy.
Some of our best men, from
January to December, never
AXE their thoughts from the
Christmas preparing.
There are fashions in Toilet !,
foods and Toys, Vienna wares
md Cut Glass, Jewel and I
Hove Boxes. We are in the
win and swing of that fash
on. Last years fancy goods
would no more do for us this
rear than last years bonnets /
r last years costumes. S
Whatever is the best to be $
ad is here, and whatever way y
ives best service to our GUS :
omers shall be the practice {
ere.
No interruption Of exchanges
or holidays. Store open IN {
1emings, commencing nert
saturday.
Tell it.
JOHN WANAMAKER,
hestnut Thirteenth and Market Streets,
and City Hall Square.
PHILADELPHIA, Monday, Dec. II, 1887. Il
What shall the nresent be
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75o. sorts of Pocketbooks.
Everything richanduseful, rep.
resenting the best manufacture
ers Of Germany, France, Aus
tria, and America. Look at
twelve a minute, and in an
hour there would still be
Pocketbook newness to see.
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If YoU like The TRANSCRIPT tell
your neighbor about it and tell him
70 send for a sample copy,
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Photograph Albums. More
and finer and cheaper every
year. 81 to $40
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An Opera or Field Glass
wouldn't come amiss any
where. Lamaire or Bardou
the best; a fifth to a third be-
low the common price $3.50 to
SIS.
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CLOS|NG.OUT. SALE!
Having rented my store and concluded to close out
will sell off at COST the following line of goods
DRY GOODS.

ga and ga Cassmeres and Repelents Dress Goods Black
and G0fored Gasmere Black Silks Gafcoes "a Gambrics
and Foulards White and Cream Table Linen Red Gold
Table Damask, Red and Blue Twied Fannels of all grades
and qualities Plain Red Flannel White Flannes Shaker Elan
nes Ladies Scarlet and White Undervests Gents Under
wear-in white and scarlet Chldrens Underwear Jersey
Gloves black and color Buck Goat and Sheep Skin Cloves
Yarn Gloves and Mittens Ladies' Gents and Children
Stockings Gents Hose in Great Variety All Wool Elan.
mel Over Shirts Latest Styles and Shades.
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Christmas Cards. Autograph Albums Scrap Albums and Photograph
either Vgnee Cabinet sz Ladies Hand Bags Pocket
books Papee Velvet and Plush Frames
Toilet Mirrors Dressing Shaving Manicure Sets Cuff and
Collar Boxes Pacques Brackets Racks Whk Holders Cigar Cases
Blocks Games (assod Combs
and Brushes Cones and Extracts Gin fancy and Cut Glass Bo
mol store, frs
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DO you like THE TRANSCRIPT ?
Tell your friend about it and tell him
also, to send for a free sample copy.
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PH1LADEnrH1A, Monday, Dec. 1a, 1887.

PHILADELPHIA, Monday, Dec. II, 1887.
What shall the present be T?
A storeful of helps to the
answer.
You may put a few cents or
a good many dollars into things
that are almost nothing, at all
except pretty. Gift-things for
use are here, too. They are
the many.
Besides almost everything
likeable in Silver or Plated
ewelry, a large assortment in
solid gold. Medium cost things
up to $50 or so. Watches,
too. As many tried sorts as
you are likely to see together
anywhere.
Clocks and Bronzes. A good
time to buy whether you know
the things or not. The goods
are here, and the prices are in
your favor. Timers, e5 cents
to $1oo.
A world of pretty and useful
things wrought in Brass by
cunning artifcers of Berlin,
Vienna, and Paris. We have
chosen the cutest shapes. and
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Mugs Shaving Mugs Mostache Cups Chdren 3pee Set
Oatmeal Sets Dresden Tea Sets 46 French China Gold Band
pieces Dinner 25 pieces Pickle and
cers small Nckelplated Clocks, $125 to $500
Pitchers large of Hand Painted
Cups Saucers the New Square Shapes
Importation Maddocks fine China all the Square Shapes from
dvdua large 1Snch Turkey Dish importers prices
No.2s first fooL Left Counte
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Jewelry and Vases.

Ladies' Ladies' and Gents Scarf Pins Ear Rgsr
Finger Rings (Pan se Cuff Buttons Pearl and Gold Bracelets
Pearl Gold Mugs Individual
Casters Forks Toohp Holders Napkin Rings Sugar. Tea and
Table Spoons
ors Blow Vases % SIZE Bsque Figures
10 0centsto $1.25.
No.1st first hoor,R Coun
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Did you ever hear oi
Brocklehurst, famous for his
| White Silk Mufaers? We have
none of his Muf1ers except a
few carried from last year.
But we have better Silk Muf-
fers, if possible, at So, the
usual price IS and S6; our price
last season was $3.50. Be-
cause Of imperfections so slight
that not one in a hundred will
suspect what they are, we
shall sell some of them at 81,
S1.25, and $1.5o, about two
thirds of last years prices for
such qualities.
Other Silk Muff1ers-
Cream, % inch, 81.
Cream 80 inch, 81. .25 and $l.5O
Cream, S6 inch, s..
Colored, fine. 70 cents to SO.
Cashmere Mufaers-
% inch, plain white grouud, with red
and blue dots and figures 25 cents
Heavier, S5 cents.
Printed in Cashmere effects, rs cents
Fine wool, in dark colors, 65 and IS
cents.
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Handkerchiefs from China
Japan, France, Switzerland
and Ireland. We must pro.
vide literally to do our great
business ; this year more 1iber.
ally than ever.
Take one of these Mems
Handkerchief, with I or 2
inch hem, full size IS cents.
Compare it with any of the old
style, old price, 5o-cent. goods.
We have sold thousands like
it at SO cents each.
Get a dozen of these Wo-
mems Hemstitched, Il and I
inch hens, at s. a dozen, and
compare with the usual So a
dozen yes, or even the S42o
a dozen. We have sold lots
OF them at $4.2o a dozen,
Or another example,
Women's Unlaundered Initial
Handkerchiefs at I2H cents
each. When washed compare
them with any 20 or IS centers.
Or the little ones Handker-
chiefs, 6 in a box for 80 cents.
Perfectly fast woven orprinted
colored borders. You may be
asked as much for 8 of the
same sort in a box.
Silk Handkerchiefs-
Heavy, 20 inch, 65 cents.
Heavy, d inch, rs cents.
Heavy, "a inch. 81.
Extra heavy, % inch, S1.25.
Extra heavy, "a inch, 81. so.
Imperial weight (known as such in Japan)
p inch, Sl.50.
"a inch, Sl.75.
26 inch, $500.
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Glassware.

Library Lamps (Hnging Bronze Blue Gold Ebony Hall
Hand Lamps Stand Lamps decorated and plain Caa Engraved Pitch
Tumbers and Gobes Coored Glass
piece Tea Sets Pitchers, Caster Sets and Syrup Cans.
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THananlaker's.
PH1ADE1rH1A, Monday Dec. 10, 1887.

Under the new
system Of busi-
ness we intro
duced with the
opening of this
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Plain & Decorated Queensware.

NO. Store first floor Right Counter
Plain & Decorated oueensware.
bB o 5ss ss s ssa
n Sa 5 S ,,m.., Hand p,,
'a sPss @'
d1idua large Turkey importers prices
Glassware.
Hand Library g I1Rp .@ n Blu B aed d Ebony Hall p
ers Tunb Gobes In csored Glass we has ngovi sss
piece Tea Sets, Pitchers, Caster Sets and Syrup Cans
Coats, Wraps and Jackets
n @ @ y 3 sst s S % ss M ; s % as
Bs9n Fancy Pd sa aag co @ a
Nswmarks!s and Jackets Also few old style Coats and polman which will
Fancy Wool Skirts and Water
Miscellaneous.
Tides Cashmere Jersey Gloves and ns I @ Hosiery u s
Misses WGoen Lsggng Hoods Baby Caps Gents Nekvea latest
Housekeeping Goods
s ~ & s sr % 4 sfR fass .s So s1s %
and Covers Raw silk and wool and other fab Pillow and
| first aoor
Blankets Robes.
Handsome Smyrna Rugs Meguete Rugs How dearly friend will
We s nlin R and at White BED both s1n m for an this 1
Heavy Wool Carriage $50 caid Black and Gray
d %s f9ss 3 ss'9sss $780, for Buffalo Robes Horse blankets and
Hats Caps, Etc
R middle s's aged i'slsi ssd d dsF
Travelling Outfits
sa gBs Basna al s4stos 5 and qsa' d @ s 1s HPs, sa
- = Lads s1s 6 ST.
s. Handsome Silk Umbrellas 81 $50 TO the large sara0s
Boots, Shoes, Slippers
Hsds & ss made Sii.s % ys In f sh6R HP Boots 81 ss
Cloves aauntlets, Mitts.
Buckskin Gauntets Gloves; Dogskin fur tors. s K;
fs H 'e G1ss sa and an sss a9
sizes to suit everybody, young or old
Clothing Clothing, Clothing.
We word about Clothing have such large and
SoRksoREWs the s % M s AS INF
you must @ sss the goods a sd sl.p nGp ~
apRtsass Mens su tns om S~ pSss $500 m SHIFTS from
$:: s' ;$S 81; S !: :. $ 3
No storese hoo '"" "OV
Cutlery.
After the sab @ don do not neglect buy Carver
and Dessert Knives white and black handles Knives and Forks om
50 Ladies' and Gents 4bde Pocket Knives
For the Christmas Dinner.
We have Fresh Candies Plain French Mxpr from
pound Layer Cluster seede Ran Figs ron
1ranble cgan oranges Lemons Bananas; White clusters
Shell 4s AGon Gaos @ Engh Wann Cream Nuts Fb
Tomatoes Asparagus Sardne Olives su ChowChow Preserves
apples W the barrel and basket ID Evaporated
Apples.
Gs Goods bought between December January
S not relurnaoe From this date until after Christmas Stores
emlan open each day until 9p.m Saturday II p m
S. NJ REYNOLDS & CO. -
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Chestnut, Thirteenth and Market Streets,
and City Hall Square.
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Thursday Afternoon. Doc. Is. 1887
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Coats, Wraps and Jackets.

In this department have the quantity
ments that we had last and at lower All tailor and
anteed to fit WE'LL
Ladies Fur Trimmed Cloth and Plush Wraps Long
Newmake Jackets in Berlin Fancy Plaid and socke Cloth Misses
Newmarks and Jackets Also few old style Coats
half them Also Long SQUARE
Wool Skirts and Water
nroofs
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Chestnut, Thirteenth and Market
streets and City.hau square.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-10-09
An American Adventures In
London.

There was an American adventures
in London during the present season,
who avenged some of the wrongs in
fiicted by the English traveller on long
suffering American society. The dy
in question was young and handsome,
and presumably wealthy She came
to London early in the spring, accom-
panied by lovely young sister, and
also, it was said, by an invalid hus-
band. Nobody ever saw the lat
ter. He was said to be in such
wretched health that he never left
his own room even to take his
meals. The lady took house in the
most fashionable quarter of London,
entertained superbly and was very
much admired. The pretty sister be-
came engaged to a young American
gentleman, who was resident Of
London. Then the wife, with her in
valid and invisible husband, went. off
to the Continent for the benefit, it was
said, of the gentleman's health. From
that trip the lady returned shrouded
in Grape and overwhelmed with
grief. The dear sufferer, she declared,
had expired soon after they
had started on their travels.
The impecunious wife-hunters of
England were beginning to look
with interest on the fair and
wealthy widow when-something
happened. Nobody knew exactly
what, but the house in Belgravia was
given up and the young sisters be-
trothed broke off his engagement and
the ladies disappeared like snowfakes
beneath the sunshine. Then the true
solution of the riddle was whispered
about the London clubs and drawing
rooms. The sisters were two accom-
plished and daring adventuresses.
The invalid husband had never ex-
listed. Neither of the ladies had ever
been legally married, and the wealth
of the elder one had sprung from a
source easier to imagine than to de-
scribe.-[Mrs. Lucy Hooper in Phila-
delphia Telegraph.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-10-09
reflections on the multiplicity of such


actions.
He deprecated the idea that pov-
erty was a sufficient cause for setting
aside marriage, and denounced the
intermeddling practices of friends and
relatives who fill the wife's head with
the notion that she is a martyr. He
instanced case which had come be-
fore him, where the daughter of a
well-to-do citizen had married young
man, and although he had done the
best he could, the wife was told by
meddlesome friends that she could
have made better match, and event.
ually a suit for divorce was the result
One of Washington Irving's most
delightful sketches is that which tells
of a wealthy man who had married a
fashionable woman, and shortly after
their marriage lost all his property.
The poor man suffered tortures at the
thought OF how his wife would feel
when she knew the facts; but, to his
surprise and joy, she went from the
big city house, with its fine furniture,
to the little cottage in the country,
with light heart and merry coun-
tenance, and their happiness was un-
interrupted.
This was probably a mere fancy
sketch OF Irving's, but it has been
many time matched and more than
matched in real life. And it should
be the true and only story of welded
life where misfortune has intervened
in spite OF the husbands honest exer-
tions. The old-fashioned idea of mar
riage was that it was marriage for
life, andit will be good thing when
that idea shall become prevalent
again. Chicago Journal.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-10-09
Rig Sleeves.

"Nothing ever did SO much harm to
the manufacture OF ladies' neckwear
as those tailor-made styles" said a
commercial traveller on the train re-
Gently. "Linen collars and cuffs were
the only thikrs to go with that style
of dress, and Nhe fashion killed big
ruching industry. Now that wide
sleeves have come in again and dresses
fold about the shoulders instead of
buttoning to the chin, ruching is in
fashion again, and am selling piles
of it. You have no notion how little
changes of fashion affect large indus
tries. Ruching is cheap, but it
doesn't last long. AS soon as it gets
soiled lady takes it out of her dress
and bastcs in new strip, and 80 when
fashion comes our way it makes big
demand and sets lots Of people to work
"That Jersey style is another thing
that did great deal of harm to the
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-10-09
Agriculture in WaspIand d .

Whatever may be the general ex-
perience in regard to the number OF
wasps prevalent this season, certainly
they are abundant enough in some
places. At Maiden Erleigh, and close
t. the kitchen garden, a nest was
found to have been made in stack OF
turf sod. This was smoked with sui
phur, then carefully dug out, and was
found to be the largest ever seen there,
for it was about thirty inches in cir
conference, and contained literall v
thousands OF wasps of great size.
Oddly enough, at the Erleigh Cottage
Garden Exhibition prizes are offered
for the finest wasp's nests, these be-
ing, OF course, shown in closed cases
of glass.
The one from the turf bed was put
on to a board, and undera close-fitting
hand-light, which was secured to the
board, and so exhibited, easily taking
the first prize, On one side portion
OF the outer case of the nest, which is
in all cases round, had been accident
ally broken away, and thus specta-
tors were enabled to inspect the in
ternal structure of this curious dwell
ing. The tiers of comb ran across
the nest horizontally, but somewhat
followed, and not more than three
quarters of an inch apart; indeed,
thickness of the comb and intervals
seemed to correspond with exceeding
accuracy. The wasps were far larger
than were those found with better and
much smaller nests. The labor OF
making this nest must have been
great, and it would be interesting to
know out of what materials it is con-
structed. The following out of so
great a space in the soil must also
have been great, and it seems evident
that every grain OF the soil must have
been carried out and dropped away,
as no evidence of such an excavation
was externally visible.-[The Gar
dener's Chronicle.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-10-09
Press Opinion.

| Respect tor law marks the begin
ming of civilization, and the progres.
of community is measured by the
development of this sentiment
|[Chicago Tribune, Rep.
The President will see mighty Bis
country. From tip to tip the Ameri
can eagle has 300-mile spread o.
wing and a good, healthy, heaven
reaching scream.-[ Philadelphia Rec
ord, Ind.
President Cleveland sets good ex-
ample to junketing politicians by pay
ing the entire expense of his car, in
cluding the fares of each member of
his party, for his Western and South
ern Journey.-[Philadelphia Times,
Ind.
The story that Mr.. Henry George,
having accumulated some $4,000 by
strict attention to business, will dis
tribute this amount OF money to the
poor of New York on Christmas day,
bears internal evidence Of inaccuracy.
If Mr.. George has accumulated $20.-
900, or any other sum of money,
which he intends to appropriate for
the relief of the needy, he will prob
ably distribute it on election day
Brooklyn Eagle, Dem.
the convention was in session four
months and its deliberations were
kept profoundly secret. That would
be impossible in these. days. The
ubiquitous reporters would be sure to
find some clew. Even the stern re-
proof of Chairman Washington would
be braved. Besides, some distin-
guished member would want to get
his views aired and would throw out
hints. This is no time to make con-
stitutions. We are glad that ours was
made long ago, in less curious age.
II Boston Herald, Ind.
Measured by Foraker's mouth the
Republican party of Ohio is tremen-
dous affair; measured by the effect of
its law providing for mixed schools it
is successful in its efforts to drive ca
pable negro teachers outof the schools
and is also successful in its efforts to
cripple the public school system.
Take it altogether, the Foraker party
is entitled to its laurels; but if the ne
groes of 0 lio have any intelligence
they will feel that, under the guise of
"mixed Schools" a blow has been
struck at their race -[Atlanta Consti-
tuition, Dem.
Cardinal Gibbons is apparently a
bad man in the eyes of the McGlynn
party. Some time ago, when his ar
guments prevented Papal condemna-
tion of the Knights of Labor, he was a
pretty good man; but socialism and
labor had not quarreled.-[New York
Mail and Express, Rep.
Why are Mr.. Blaine's boys to be
slighted? Why should not one of
them have a place on the next Repub-
lican national ticket? We might thus
have the Blaine name, the Blaine
magnetism and the Blaine sentiment
without the Mulligan letters and all
the other dead weight known to
Blaineism.-[Louisville Courier-Jour-
nal, Dem.
We shuddered at the idea of Cleve-
lands election. But now that he has
proved wise ruler we rather rejoice:
First, that our fears were groundless.
Second, that it has been proven to
Republican prohihitionists that they
can.safely vote their principles (only
held by the Prohibition partly with
out drawback in the future, or fear
of Democrats North or South dam
aging the country.-[The Center,
Prohibition,
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-10-09

ladies-wear trade. A dress body al
ways wears out before the skirt. So
it used to be that women were always
getting new bodices or making old
ones over. But when the jerseys
came in the women would simply pull
ON one of those things with any skirt
and they were dressed. Now that
seems small thing, but it amounts
to great deal to the manufacturing
interests. 1t almost killed the trade
in trimmings. The wearing OF jerseys
also cut down the consumption OF but
tons immensely. l know one manu-
facturer whose sales went down from
500, 900 year to $4,000. l tell you
there are lots of people who are de-
lighted to see wide sleeves and loose
folds come in again. They call them
angel sleeves, believe, and they're
certainly angels to us."-[Pittsburg
Gazette interview.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-10-09
AJudxe ON Divorce,

Judge Howe, of indianapolis, re-
Gently made some sensible remarks
touching divorces. An attorney wanted
him to take up divorce case, urging
that it would require only five minutes
to try it. But the Judge said that no
case of divorce could be tried in five
minutes, and went on to make some